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People rally for immigrant rights on July 17, 2025 in Glendale, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Hospital warns staff not to slam ICE

Tatyana Tandanpolie

Cincinnati hospital fired two chaplains for speaking out after colleague detained during routine check-in

Julia Garner as Shalla-Bal/Silver Surfer in "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" (20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios)

We've reached peak Marvel mess

Coleman Spilde

The press tour for "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" has been chaos. Don't blame anyone but the Marvel machine

President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before departing the White House en route to Turnberry, Scotland on July 25, 2025, in Washington DC. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump "allowed" to pardon Maxwell

Blaise Malley

The president told reporters that he had not thought about issuing a pardon but volunteered that he could do so

Housing and prison activist  Malik Rahim, a resident of Algiers Point on the West Bank of New Orleans (National Geographic)

Katrina warned us. We haven't learned

Melanie McFarland

Five-part docuseries "Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time" warns of our next preventable disaster

Paper coffee cup (Emilija Manevska / Getty Images)

How much to tip for 1 coffee, delivered?

Joy Saha

A woman's coffee order was cancelled by her driver over what he believed was an insufficient $3.50 tip

From left, American real estate developer Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania Knauss, financier (and future convicted sex offender) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

Will Maxwell come through for Trump?

Heather Digby Parton

Suspicions are raised after Justice Department's six-hour meeting with the convicted sex trafficker

"The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" (left) and "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" (right) (Photo illustration by Salon / Bettmann / Getty Images / Scott Kowalchyk / CBS )

Colbert wasn’t CBS’s first sacrifice

Sophia A. McClennen

Caving to pressure from two presidents, the network fired the Smothers Brothers in 1969

Logan Lerman and Molly Gordon in "Oh, Hi!" (Sony Pictures Classics)

"Oh, Hi!" destroys cinema's worst trope

Coleman Spilde

In the dark comedy, Sophie Brooks and Molly Gordon brilliantly subvert expectations of cinema's scorned women

Supporters attend a primary election night event for J.D. Vance, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, at Duke Energy Convention Center on May 3, 2022 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

MAGA supports Trump, even when it hurts

Alexander Hinton - The Conversation

Trump's signature policy is likely to hurt many of his most loyal followers. Why do they still support him?

A cosplayer dressed as Chuck E. Cheese poses during the 2024 New York Comic Con. (Photo by Marleen Moise/Getty Images)

Chuck E. Cheese arrested

Alex Galbraith

Did someone in Munch's Make Believe Band dime him out? We smell a rat

New York City Mayor Eric Adams arrives for a court hearing at Thurgood Marshall Courthouse on February 19, 2025 in New York City. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

Trump DOJ sues NYC over sanctuary laws

Alex Galbraith

The suit named Mayor Eric Adams as a defendant and said the laws put ICE agents at "considerable risk"

The Paramount logo is displayed at Columbia Square along Sunset Blvd in Hollywood, California on March 9, 2023.

FCC approves Paramount, Skydance merger

Alex Galbraith

FCC Chair Brendan Carr cheered Skydance's commitment to making "significant changes" at CBS

Amy Sherald at the Whitney Gala held at The Whitney Museum of Art on May 20, 2025 in New York, New York. (Photo by Alyssa Greenberg/Getty Images)

Sherald cancels Smithsonian show

Cheyenne McNeill

The portrait artist cited concerns over "censorship" as the Trump administration focuses on the institution

Hulk Hogan during his Hulkamania Tour in 2009. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)

Hulk Hogan dead at 71

Alex Galbraith

The superstar wrestler helped take pro wrestling from niche entertainment to the center of pop culture

Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Democrats hope to flip North Carolina

Cheyenne McNeill

Former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper looks set to face off against RNC Chairman Michael Whatley

"South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

South Park hits Trump, Paramount

Blaise Malley

The Season 27 premiere mocks Trump’s lawsuits, the Epstein files and his manhood

Pedestrians walk by Columbia University in Upper Manhattan on June 05, 2025 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Few love Columbia's deal with Trump

Garrett Owen

Pro-Israel activists and pro-Palestine campaigners alike took issue with the school's $200 million capitulation

Kelly Osbourne, Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne and Jack Osbourne (KMazur/WireImage/Getty Images)

How "The Osbournes" derailed reality

Melanie McFarland

By giving us a living room peek into an aging rock star's life, MTV gave birth to a new age of celebrity worship

A fan holds up a sign during a kiss cam segment in the game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Angels at Citizens Bank Park on July 18, 2025 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Isaiah Vazquez/Getty Images)

Yes, you can enjoy the kiss-cam scandal

Andi Zeisler

Ignore the media scolds and embrace the schadenfreude

Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing for U.S. Attorney General in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on January 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Bondi faces call to testify on Epstein

Garrett Owen

Democrats are demanding answers after the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump's name is in the Epstein files

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after handing out food while standing at a drive-thru window during a campaign stop at a McDonald's in Feasterville-Trevose, PA on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Why Trump’s fast food obsession matters

Ashlie D. Stevens

The president’s fast food fixation is less about flavor and more about shaping culture and political identity

U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on February 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump’s superpower is no longer working

Brian Karem

Distracting the media and the public is not making the Epstein scandal go away

President Donald Trump at the 2025 FIFA World Cup on July 13, 2025 (Image Photo Agency/Getty Images)

With low polls, why won't Trump pivot?

Chauncey DeVega

Six months into his second term, the president refuses to change his policies and behavior

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT) on March 26, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump admin frees "worst of the worst"

Charles R. Davis

The administration, by its own logic, freed the world’s most dangerous terrorists at a 25-to-1 exchange rate

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